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#Canada trapped in China-US feud over #Huawei extradition - Nikkei Asian Review
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Canada is one of five anglophone countries with whom the U.S. shares confidential information, a group known as the “Five Eyes.” Denying an American request for extradition could be seen as giving into Chinese pressure, harming future security cooperation. Canada, which relies on the U.S. for half its imports and over 70% of its exports, cannot afford to ignore the impact on its economy, either.

But Trudeau also faces growing concerns about Chinese retaliation if Meng is handed over. Chinese authorities have arrested two former Canadian diplomats, accusing them of jeopardizing national security, and sentenced a Canadian citizen to death for drug smuggling. Trudeau has called the death sentence arbitrary and issued a travel warning for China.

Germany and Tunisia talking deportations

Germany is debating measures to speed up the deportation of rejected asylum seekers from North Africa. Tunisia has agreed to support the government and asked for Germany to downgrade its travel warnings.

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US issues Lebanon travel warning
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The U.S. State Department Friday urged its citizens to avoid all travel to Lebanon because of ongoing security concerns.

In a statement, the State Department said that U.S. citizens living and working in Lebanon should understand that they accept the risks of remaining in the country and should carefully consider those risks.

“In the past two years, two U.S. citizens have died in bombings, and two have been kidnapped, according to information available to the U.S. government,” the statement said.

Although there is no evidence that these attacks were directed specifically at U.S. citizens, there is a real possibility of being in the “wrong place, [at the] wrong time” it noted.

The State Department said that the Lebanese government cannot guarantee protection for U.S. citizens or visitors to the country in the event violence occurs suddenly.

A Catch-22 in Kenya : Western Terrorism Alerts May Fuel Terrorism
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/world/africa/as-tourism-sags-on-kenyan-coast-terrorists-could-lure-the-unemployed.html?_

Kenya’s coastal tourism is collapsing, and part of the reason — a big part of the reason, Kenyan officials say — is Western travel warnings issued after a round of violence last summer in a remote coastal area. The American warning is perhaps the strictest, barring embassy personnel from setting foot anywhere on the coast, unless special permission is granted. It also warns tourists of possible “suicide operations, bombings — to include car bombings — kidnappings, attacks on civil aviation, and attacks on maritime vessels in or near Kenyan ports.”

Kenyan officials are incensed, saying that the coast is hardly a raging war zone and that the Western travel warnings amount to “economic sabotage,” scaring away travelers who rely on government advisories to explain which places are safe and which are not. Worse, many Kenyans contend, and even some diplomats say, these warnings could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The logic goes like this: A major reason for the travel advisories is the string of terrorist attacks that Kenya has suffered over the last three years, including some on the coast. But by contributing to the collapse of the coastal tourism industry, the travel warnings may simply be increasing the joblessness, idleness, poverty, drug use and overall desperation — all well-known kindling for terrorist activity — in an already depressed slice of Kenya.

Egypte : Tourism slumps 80% since August - Daily News Egypt

▻http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/09/30/tourism-slumps-80-since-august-tourism-minister

Baisse de 80 % des revenus du tourisme depuis le 14 août.

Twelve countries have lifted their travel warnings on Egypt, with Russia set to do so “within hours”, according to Zaazou. “Germany, the United Kingdom, Holland, Denmark, Czech Republic, Sweden and Norway are among the countries that lifted the travel alerts,” he said, noting that the first flight from Denmark would arrive on Friday.

#économie #tourisme #Egypte #crise #Rabea

Gulf Arab states warn against travel to LebanonTravel & Tourism - Zawya
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mauvaise saison touristique en perspective au Liban cet été. On s’en doutait...

Gulf Arab countries issued a travel warning for Lebanon on Wednesday, telling their citizens to avoid what is a popular tourist destination for the region after a spillover of violence from neighbouring Syria.

Sectarian violence fuelled by Syria’s civil war has broken out in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli and, last month, two rockets fired at southern Beirut, controlled by the Shi’ite Hezbollah militia, brought the violence deeper into Lebanon.

On Wednesday, Syrian government forces backed by Hezbollah fighters seized control of the Syrian town of Qusair, near the Lebanese border.

The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) told its citizens that the unstable security situation in Lebanon “makes the presence of GCC nationals there unsafe”, GCC Secretary-General Abdulatif al-Zayani said in a statement, without elaborating.

Visitors from wealthy Gulf states account for the bulk of Lebanon’s vital tourism income, which has been hit hard by the unrest in Syria.

The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have already issued their own travel warnings for Lebanon. The GCC also includes Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman.

The Sunni Muslim leaders of the Gulf Arab states have long called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose ruling establishment are mostly members of an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam, to step down. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have both been arming the rebels.

Bahrain’s deputy foreign minister said on Sunday that GCC states would consider taking action against Hezbollah if it continued its involvement in Syria’s civil war or interfered in Gulf Arab affairs.

The Arab League and the United States have also urged Hezbollah to pull its fighters from Syria. France has said up to 4,000 Hezbollah militiamen are fighting alongside forces loyal to Assad.

#Liban
#tourisme

State Department issues new travel warning for Egypt

▻http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/05/18/state-department-issues-new-travel-warning-for-egypt